MEDIUM HYBRID SACD CONDITION sealed MINI LP GATEFOLD CARDBOARD COVER M mint BOOKLET M mint SERIALNUMBER Yes LIMITED No MISCELLANEOUS Stereo, playable on all CD Players ! MUSICIAN HOMEPAGEdavidcrosby.com
David Crosby - vocals, guitar
Graham Nash - guitar, vocals (music is love, tamalpais high, laughing, what are their names, traction in the rain, song with no words)
Jerry Garcia - electric guitar (cowboy movie, tamalpais high, what are their names, song with no words); pedal steel guitar (laughing); vocals (what are their names)
Neil Young - guitars, vocals (music is love, what are their names); bass, vibraphone, congas (music is love)
Jorma Kaukonen - electric guitar (tamalpais high, song with no words)
Laura Allan - autoharp, vocals (traction in the rain)
Gregg Rolie - piano (song with no words)
Phil Lesh - bass (cowboy movie, tamalpais high, laughing, what are their names); vocals (what are their names)
Jack Casady - bass (song with no words)
Bill Kreutzmann - drums (tamalpais high, laughing); tambourine (cowboy movie)
Michael Shrieve - drums (what are their names, song with no words)
Mickey Hart - drums (cowboy movie)
Joni Mitchell - vocals (laughing, what are their names)
David Freiberg - vocals (what are their names)
Paul Kantner - vocals (what are their names)
Grace Slick - vocals (what are their names)
music is love - 3:23
cowboy movie - 8:13
tamalpais high (at about 3) - 3:33
laughing - 5:28
what are their names - 4:14
traction in The rain - 3:46
song with no words (tree with no leaves) - 6:00
orleans - 2:01
i'd swear there was somebody here - 1:23
No album personifies the relaxed, loose, albeit troubled early 1970s California aura like If I Could Only Remember My Name
Hallucinogenic, trippy, and akin to a foggy dream you want to last for hours on end, David Crosby's blissed-out solo debut transcends time and remains a key influence on the contemporary freak-folk scene
A thoroughly unique statement, it lingers as a beautiful convergence of spontaneity, collaboration, circumstance, and recording-studio acumen
Now, more than 50 years after its release, the longtime audiophile favorite has never sounded more ethereal, present, detailed, balanced, or lush
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile Fidelity's numbered hybrid SACD of the 1971 effort underlines the escapist peace of Crosby's music and brilliance of Stephen Barncard's engineering
Equally important, it reveals Crosby's unsurpassed vocal performances and the inspired contributions of the many illustrious Bay Area colleagues and friends – Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Graham Nash, key members of the Grateful Dead, and several members of the Jefferson Airplane included – that allow If I Could Only Remember My Name to function as an altered-consciousness paean to community, harmony, and necessary emotional release (and suspension)
Always renowned for gorgeous sonics, the album takes on deeper transcendental qualities and resonates with more spiritual energy on Mobile Fidelity's reissue
Listeners can now fully hear and see into the fabric of each song, witness the notes seemingly dissolve into thin air, and perceive why Barncard – who, a year before, helmed the Grateful Dead's American Beauty – cited the echo chamber at Wally Heider Recording as "probably the best chamber I've used anywhere, anytime
It was magic
That's what you hear on [Jerry] Garcia's pedal steel on ‘Laughing'
Other examples of the so-called "magic" extend to the completely live take (and organic realism) of "Cowboy Movie," live autoharp and natural tonality on "Traction in the Rain," and the subtle phasing blending with the live-to-mono immediacy of Crosby, Nash, and Young's vocals on "Music Is Love"
Ranked one of the 40 Greatest Stoner Albums by Rolling Stone, which rightly declares it a "super-stoned campfire jam," If I Could Only Remember My Name is furthered by the fact it's rooted in deep-seated sorrow and haunting sadness - namely, the death of Crosby's then-girlfriend in a car accident
Originally, the singer intended to bottle up his feelings, but as sessions proceeded and the work primarily came together on the spot, the truth began to trickle out
While it lacks a narrative arc or straightforward lyrics, the nine-track record lands upon something richer than obvious words: That of a distinct, persistent vibe indicative of a nagging, ominous reality lurking beneath a warm, hazy, supportive surface
RECORDING 1970 - 1971 at Wally Heider Recording, Studio D, San Francisco ENGINEERING Stephen Barncard LABEL Atlantic RE MASTERING Shawn R. Britton RE RELEASED 2022 AVERAGE RATING 4.67 Stars out of 5 MADE IN USA STYLE Rock / Folk Rock / Psychedelic / Jazz AVAILABLE as long as inventory stock
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